Metropolitan Epiphanius I

Metropolitan Epiphanius I (3 February 1979-), born Serhii Petrovych Dumenko, was the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Metropolitan of Kiev and all Ukraine from 15 December 2018.

Biography
Serhii Petrovych Dumenko was born in Vovkove, Odessa Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union on 3 February 1979. He graduated from the Kyiv Theological Seminary in 1999, and he worked as a seminary teacher and religious newspaper editor before being ordained Bishop of Vyshgorodsky on 15 November 2009. In 2012, he was elevated to the rank of Archbishop, and he became Metropolitan of Pereiaslav and Bila Tserkva on 13 December 2017. On 15 December 2018, he was elected to be the first Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church after its split from the Russian Orthodox Church.